I’ve noticed this in previous versions of Vocalizer. It also seems to only 
happen with certain words, like different and differently. 
> On Oct 10, 2015, at 7:56 PM, Matthew Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, because before this previous vocalizer update, this wasn’t occurring.
> I have my default voice for text-to-speech and voiceover set to Samantha. I 
> was able to reproduce this bug, and it really does say bitch when you have 
> the speech slower, but when you speed the voice up it can be had to tell.
> 
> 
> God bless.
> Matthew Dierckens
> Certified Assistive Technology Specialist
> Macintosh, Windows and IOS  Trainer
> U.S. number: 573-401-1018
> Personal Email: [email protected]
> 
>> On Oct 10, 2015, at 19:50, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> So you think this is a Nuance bug, not a Voiceover bug?
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Dierckens" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 7:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: A somewhat comical bug that Sooo! needs to be fixed in I O S 
>> 9.02.
>> 
>> 
>> As I don’t use the enhanced Samantha voice, I had to test it out on the Mac 
>> as well, and it does in fact appear to do this as well. All of the nuance 
>> voices were recently updated with the release of El Capitan, so it is 
>> definitely nuance who needs to be notified.
>> 
>> God bless.
>> Matthew Dierckens
>> Certified Assistive Technology Specialist
>> Macintosh, Windows and IOS  Trainer
>> U.S. number: 573-401-1018
>> Personal Email: [email protected]
>> 
>>> On Oct 10, 2015, at 19:28, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, this does happen. Contact Apple about it, and have Neuance correct 
>>> that. This may be an embarrasement someday. But its not a problem, I don't 
>>> believe, in iOS, more like a speech problem that will have to be fixed. 
>>> That's a very bazarre, and embarrasing bug.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Oct 10, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> OK, first off, this is not the public beta.  I'm speaking of the official 
>>>> I O S build.  that being said, this does happen as well on the beta.  I 
>>>> tested it.  Technically, I probably shouldn't be saying that, but anyway...
>>>> 
>>>> Try this for yourself.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.  Switch your speech to the enhanced quality Symantha voice.  It's the 
>>>> only one where I'm seeing this occur.
>>>> 
>>>> 2.  Type in the word "bit", b i t.  bit.  then, have it read back just the 
>>>> individual word.  Notice that it reads it correctly.
>>>> 
>>>> 3.  Now however, do this.  Type in a full sentence and use the word "bit" 
>>>> b i t, in the middle of the sentence.  Make sure there's at least one word 
>>>> after it in the sentence.
>>>> 
>>>> Now mark?  Do not put me on moderator status here.  We are all? adults 
>>>> here.  OK?  I'm not cussing like in my last thread.  I'm quoting a bug 
>>>> here.  I'm not trying to unprofessionally curse.  So, let's be mature 
>>>> about this!  I'm gonna be quite angry if you call me out on this publicly 
>>>> or not.  But seriously, you'll notice, instead of saying bit, it instead 
>>>> says, bitch!  b i t c h.  Like a female dog.
>>>> 
>>>> Example:  I hope it explains things a bit differently, would actually come 
>>>> out as:  I hope it explains things a bitch differently.
>>>> 
>>>> If you read word by word though with your rotor, you'll notice that you 
>>>> did! spell things correctly, and that in all actuality, the word bit, b i 
>>>> t, is written, not the other word.
>>>> 
>>>> Is that! not just totally! bizarre?  If you don't believe me with this, 
>>>> and think I'm only writing this for attention, then, here's your proof:
>>>> 
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16962268/mispronunciation.mp3
>>>> 
>>>> Chris.
>>>> 
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